Patti Reed Jungle Babies quilt ideas?

I've tried a few things for pictorial fabrics. You don't say what size the 'boxes' are? If they are about 6" or so +/- , you could a nice Attic Window. If they are small you could use them as the centre (albeit largish) of a Log Cabin or one of the fairly easy square-centred stars (can't think of appropriate names at the moment, as I'm not really into stars - sorry Karen!!) . In message , gwen writes

Depending on the size of the "boxes", make stars with those in the the centers, a complimentary for points and background. Use the all over print as boarders. Stars are always good.

Pati, in Phx

gwen wrote:

A few weeks ago Donna in NE La posted a picture of her just completed baby quilt

She used a pattern in 'Clever Quilts, Making the most of panels, borders and Theme Prints' by Susan Teegarden Dissmore. The one in the book used Teddy Bears quilting fabric and more subdued colours, so you can adadpt the basic idea as you wish.

It was so unusual, and I had been looking at this book and wondering whether to get it every time I went to my LQS, so I did.

I am about to start a different quilt to Donna's - mine has country animal and bird pictures and uses border prints in the main body of the quilt. The pattern in the book used Christmas Prints or a 'great outdoors' one

I can thoroughly recommend this book (NAYY!). Once you have it you will be able to choose more fabric too!! It has some really good ideas and I am finding that I look at novelty prints and borders with new eyes, in fact when I ordered some plain black fabric yesterday I really had to shut my eyes to them.

DH is going away for 10 days tomorrow, so I can really spread out and quilt like mad!

I think I am pleased with my book - don't you!

I don't know how big your animals in boxes are but I did this baby quilt from a panel. The pattern is "Q is for Quilting" from the book "Clever Quilts".

Sally, great minds must think alike LOL. I just posted a link to the baby quilt!

is there anyway you could add some different tactile blocks or pieces on whatever design you decide on. i was thinking chenille here and there would be nice for a baby. chenille flowers, butterflys, caterpillars. should be more than a few of that kind in the 'jungle'. sorry, i'm not familiar with that design. they love to fondle fabric too and ya cant start that too young, eh. :)) i'm sure there are other touchy type techniques that elude me at the moment. jeanne design to utilize the fabrics. I've made many baby quilts, including

That is so cute Donna. I especially love your label.

Thanks! I love the photos of the baby quilt, and I am beginning to play with my fabric with it in mind! Gwen

We are plugging the book well Donna! My boxes are only the small 4" ones, so I went for the Snowflake pattern, and my other main fabric is border. I had been hanging over this book for ages and actually ordered it from Abe Books so got it at a very good price, as quickly as I would have been able to have time to go to the not-very-local QS, and the postage equalled the cost of the petrol, so I was doubly or even tripply happy.

I have accumulated quite a number of novelty fabrics that I couldn't see how to use - now I have lots of ideas of what to do with them.

Thanks, Jan. I embroidered the label on my Bernina 200.

It is a great book!!

Please let us see what you end up doing with it!

I used something similar for my daughter's baby quilt with a focus fabric:

if you don't like it so busy, you could substitute the background fabric for a solid and only use the print for the centers. I chose the 12 marbled fabrics from the colours in the butterflies.

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